Key Vocabulary
What is an emblem?
What is a symbol?
What ceremony do the children attend when they turn twelve?
The Ceremony of Twelve
What season does Jonas experience in his first memory?
What is winter?
What theme is shown when everyone follows the same rules every day?
What is sameness, order, or conformity?
What assignment does Jonas receive at the Ceremony of Twelve?
What is receiver of memory?
What is a plea?
What is an urgent and emotional request
How do people get their jobs?
What is the elders assign them?
What activity does Jonas do in his first memory?
What is sledding?
Why does the community value Sameness?
What is it creates safety, predictability, and reduces conflict?
What surprising thing happens when Jonas's assignment is announced?
What is he is skipped?
What does "Chastisement" mean?
What is a punishment or scolding?
What must family members share at dinner each night?
What are their feelings?
What feeling does Jonas experience during the memory?
What is joy, adrenaline, excitement, and freedom?
What is one thing people lose because of Sameness?
What is choice, individuality, emotions, or unique experiences?
What object seems to change for Jonas before the ceremony?
What is an apple?
What does it mean to be exempted?
What is it means you are not required to do it?
What does the community encourage everyone to use?
What is precision language?
What is one advantage of Sameness?
What is safety, fairness, predictability, fewer accidents
How does Jonas begin to change after becoming the Receiver?
What is becomes more curious, notices differences, and starts questioning his community?
What unusual ability does the Chief Elder say Jonas has?
What is to see the beyond?
What is collective ignorance?
What is situations where a group remains unaware of critical information, often due to social pressures or shared cognitive biases?
What are children expected to do after school?
What is volunteer?
What is one disadvantage of Sameness?
What is no choices, less individuality, fewer experiences, loss of beauty, etc.
Based on the chapters you read, what does the author want you to think about?
What is safety can come at the cost of freedom, choices help make us human, knowledge changes how we see the world, differences should be valued and celebrated.
What is the first memory Jonas receives?
What is snow or sleddding?